Re: [coLinux-users] Installation problems

[George P B. <geo...@gm...>]

On 7/20/05, Yaxin Liu <yx...@ga...> wrote:
> I am using 0.6.2.  Debian is 2.6.8.

You could try the 0.6.3 snapshot (it's pre-release but fixes several
problems in 0.6.2) http://www.colinux.org/snapshots/

> Crash means I need to power off the computer and restart.  It crashes
> after loading an APM (advanced power management) module.  I just removed
> the APM module from Debian, and there is no hard crash now.  The error
> information is as follows, shown on the console I started colinux:

Hmm... Yes some hardware related stuff may do this.  coLinux is not
100% protected from all these cases.

> -------------------
>=20
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000=
070
>  printing eip:
>  c010ddf7
>  *pde =3D 00000000
>  Oops: 0000 [#1]
>  PREEMPT
>  Modules linked in: md5 ipv6 ntfs
>  CPU:    0
>  EIP:    0060:[<c010ddf7>]    Not tainted VLI
>  EFLAGS: 00010017   (2.6.10-co-0.6.2)
>  EIP is at do_page_fault+0xb7/0x6e4
>  eax: de13a000   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 0000007b   edx: 00000000
>  esi: 00000000   edi: c010dd40   ebp: de13a118   esp: de13a058
>  ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
>  Process n?(pid: 8, threadinfo=3Dde138000 task=3Dde6e9100)
>  Stack: 00000000 00000070 00000000 00000000 de13a120 de13a120 c02827f8 00=
000000
>         0000000e 0000000b de139040 de13c0c0 000000a8 de13a0a8 00000008 00=
030001
>         00020001 00040003 00060005 ffff0007 001898d7 001898d8 00000000 00=
000000
>  Call Trace:
>  Code: ff 21 e0 81 bd 44 ff ff ff ff ff ff bf 8b 10 c7 85 7c ff ff ff 01 =
00 03 00
>   89 95 48 ff ff ff 0f 87 b2 05 00 00 8b 95 48 ff ff ff <8b> 5a 70 8b 50 =
14 8b 00
>   81 e2 ff ff ff ef 8b 40 14 83 f0 ff c1
>   Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Hmm.. That's nasty at what point in the boot up are you getting this?

> BTW, it also complained that there are duplicate addresses for eth0.

Yes I've seen that.  Especially when using DHCP.  I've seen or heard
someone point out that that is usually caused by IPv6 stuff being
loaded, try disabling IPv6 and see if it goes away.

> The configuration file I use is simple:
>=20
> -------------
>=20
> <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"UTF-8"?>
> <colinux>
>     <block_device index=3D"0" path=3D"\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2" enabl=
ed=3D"true" />
>     <bootparams>root=3D/dev/cobd0</bootparams>
>     <initrd path=3D"initrd.gz" />
>     <image path=3D"vmlinux" />
>     <memory size=3D"512" />
>     <network index=3D"0" name=3D"Local Area Connection" type=3D"bridged"/=
>
> </colinux>

Don't see anything wrong here provided that you have WinPCAP loaded
like discussed in my other e-mail to the list.

--=20
George